VALENCE WALL

a sort of protective mechanism by which the charge of the case is compartmented to permit the individual to work at least some of the time. —DMSMH Glossary (app. 14.7.90)

can actually exist in the individual to a point where he can be either one of two persons, himself and another person. In the very highly-charged case, in the case of the obvious psychotic, these valence walls are so well defined that the auditor can almost watch the person click from one valence to another. (SOS, p. 75)